The only time I have seen Metallica live was during their co-headlining tour with Guns & Roses back in the summer of '92. The New Orleans Superdome was spilling over with 90,000-plus people who came to see Metallica open for GNR that night, and the atmosphere was electric. A few weeks prior, James Hetfield had suffered significant burns to much of his body during a pyrotechnics mishap at an earlier show. For the remainder of the tour, Hetfield was unable to play guitar, but he bravely soldiered on as frontman and lead vocalist.
John Marshall, who had been Kirk Hammett's guitar tech, and was a member of the thrash metal band Metal Church, had previously filled in for Hetfield back in 1986 when he had broken his wrist, and he was called upon again to fill in for the remainder of the tour. Metallica were riding high on the wave of their chart-topping Metallica album, otherwise known as "the Black Album," and they turned in one of the best concerts I have ever attended. Poor Guns & Roses could not have enjoyed having to follow Metallica on stage during this tour.
Orgullo, Pasion, Y Gloria: Tres Noches En La Ciudad De Mexico, which translates to Pride, Passion, and Glory: Three Nights In Mexico City, is the first proper concert DVD from this band since 1998's Cunning Stunts, and it highlights their three sold out shows at the Foro Sol Stadium In Mexico City, on June 4th, 6th, and 7th, 2009 in front of about 155,000 rabid Metallica fans.
Metallica had not played Mexico in about ten years and their Mexican hermanos and hermanas were quite excited, to say the least. There are a lot of fan interviews before the concert starts, and mixed in between some of the songs (arrrg!), and it really shows just how intensely devoted these guys are to the band. Kirk Hammett was not too far off when he remarked, "it's like Beatlemania."
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1 - Gray Hunter
Metallica rules! Nice review.